Altered Thrift Shop Tray

August 1, 2014

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These are a few of my favorite things!

I've got a HUGE collection of various metal trays, cookie cutters, molds, and stuff I have NO idea what they were used for, LOL!  This picture is a small fraction of my collection.   Anyway, I've been wanting to make a display using some of these, so I decided the launch of my new Blog was a perfect excuse to finally do something.  I will be posting several projects this week, and then I'll wrap it all up showing how I plan to display them all together.

I will list item numbers for the Close To My Heart products at the end of this post.

Here we go!

I also have a large collection of vintage photos of people I don't know.  I like to think of them as my "chosen ancestors".  I love this picture of the lovely woman and her horse.  

Here's how it all started:

I paid $1.50 for this cute little tray at a local thrift shop. While I think it's pretty on it's own, I must have 10 of these little trays, and honestly, even I don't need to hoard 10 little trays, lol!  

My local Ace hardware store had a bunch of these little Paint Pods on sale for a buck.  It's a real pretty, pale pink color, but I wanted some depth to the color, so after painting the original color on to the tray, I added several drops of Close To My Heart's Cotton Candy re-inker to deepen the color just a shade or so.  Did you know you can use re-inkers to tint paint?

I purposely painted a thick, somewhat uneven coat of paint all over the tray and let it cure over night.  The next day, I took CTMH's Sanding Kit and roughed up the raised edges (and some of the smooth parts too).  I forgot to take pictures of that, sorry.  You can see the results in the completed project.

To mat the photo, I used the new Yuletide Carol paper from Close To My Heart, to make the largest photo mat.  I used the background stamp set called "In the Background" and the new Pixie ink to create the pink striped paper.  I used VersaMark ink along the edges of the mats as well as the photo (it's a color copy), and then added the new Silver Embossing Powder.  I'm so happy CTMH brought back embossing powder!!!  I also used the new Gold and Silver Sequins and Brown and Tan Sparkles.

To finish it off, I used a couple charms from CTMH's Base and Bling and a small amount of ribbon to attach the charms to one of the little cut out sections of the tray.

 

And that's it!  Hope you like it.  I had a blast making it.  Here's one more look:

Supplies Used:

Yuletide Carol Paper Pack                        X7187B

Slate Diagonal Ribbon                                 Z1989

Base and Bling charms: 

Arrow                                                         Z2024

Heart                                                          Z1959

Cotton Candy Re-Inker                                Z2744

In the Background stamp set                         D1540

Silver Sequins                                             Z2013

Gold Sequins                                              Z2012

Brown and Tan Sparkles                              Z1753

Silver Embossing powder                             Z2067

Versamark Ink                                             Z891

Sanding Kit                                                 Z1294